THE first came and passed and so did the second-or at least it was almost over. But it didn't matter as the variant's full mutation climax was getting closer and closer and would soon fully activate on the third day, just as the people communicating through the encrypted channel had predicted.
Only a few deaths had been reported on Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control across the States but things started to get worse towards the end of Friday.
At first, the deaths had been ruled out as the ongoing toll of COVID-19, how the non-vaccinated and unprotected people were succumbing to the virus. This new case, however, had the medical scientists in America baffled.
Dr. Anne Hollis, a silvery-haired senior chief medical examiner at the CDC Building 17 in Atlanta, had been analyzing another dead body that had just been brought in from New York.
"Victim shares the same autopsy as the rest," said, Dr. Hollis, going through all the recent records put down from Saturday morning.
